Trade.- Merchants Adventurers of England. Veneris.14. Feb. 14. Car. At the Grand Committee of Trade, Mr. Knight in the Chair. Ordered, that on Monday next the Merchants Adventurers of England, do deliver ... all their papers relating to the Conveniences and Inconveniencies arising to this Kingdome, as to the Liberty or Restraint of Trade, within the limits of the said Merchants Adventurers Patent..., 45pp., first edition, drop-head title, woodcut head-pieces and initials, double-column, hole in final leaf with loss of a few letters, [Kress, S.549; Not in Wing], [1674] bound with Advantages of the Kingdome of England (The)...by Manageing and Issuing the Drapery, and Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom, under the Ancient Government of the Fellowship of Merchants-Adventurers of England, 7pp., first edition, drop-head title, woodcut head-piece and initial, [Wing A600D], [1662] both bound after Prynne (William) A Breviate of the Life of William Laud, second edition, engraved frontispiece by Hollar, worming to lower margin affecting caption to frontispiece and typographical border of title, [Wing P3904A], by F.L. for Michaell Sparke Senior, 1644; Hidden Workes of Darkenes brought to Publike Light, first edition, engraved frontispiece by Hollar (as in previous work), [Wing P3973], by Thomas Brudenell for Michaell Sparke Senior, 1645 and Cromwell (Oliver) A Declaration of His Highness...setting forth on the Behalf of this Commonwealth, the Justice of their Cause against Spain, first edition, black letter, with the final blank, browned, [Wing C.7081], by Henry Hills & John Field, 1655 and Feversham (George Sondes, Earl of) His Plaine Narrative to the World, of all Passages upon the Death of his two Sonnes, first edition, 1655, engraved armorial frontispiece, with blank K2 bound at end, [Wing F832B], 1655, together 6 works in 1 vol., the first two items bound at end, with contemporary ink manuscript index at beginning, the Evelyn family copy with modern JE book-label and engraved bookplate of Sir Fredk. Evelyn Bart., contemporary calf, rubbed and a little marked, head of spine and corners a little worn, folio

⁂ The first two mentioned items are both very rare: ESTC records only the Harvard Business School copy of the first, and 5 of the second (British Library and Senate House Library in UK plus 3 in America).